"rebar" is a correct and usable word in written English.
Rebar refers to reinforce steel rods and is commonly used in construction. You can use it in any context when describing that type of material. Example sentence: The crew was instructed to install a lattice of rebar to reinforce the foundation.
The most common grout-anchored rock bolt is the fully grouted rebar, a threaded bar made of steel.
The harrowing sculptural installation "Straight" — a hundred and fifty tons of rebar salvaged from schools destroyed in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake and arduously straightened — is not a mere pendant to Ai's documentation of the quake's victims; it is part of the same project, as massive and as essential as China itself.
Huge floor lamps in rebar supporting paint-spattered fluorescent tubes within scratched plastic cylinders are gemütlich and grand.
Whatever our differences, we agreed that the Cross-Bronx Expressway, a deep, eternally sluggish river of brake lights and diesel exhaust coursing through a waste of twisted rebar and abandoned scrap, is as gruesome a stretch of highway as exists in these parts.
A few blocks away stood the shattered seven-story hulk of Milosevic's old police headquarters — bombed, looted, and wreathed in hanging rebar.
Then we left the car and walked through a round steel "moon gate" in an old wall, skirted spaghetti-like bundles of rebar, and passed a parking lot in which a large copper model of the tower stood, left over from a seismic test conducted at the request of Chinese officials, who were particularly unnerved by the overhang.
Finally, forty tons of steel rebar, salvaged in twisted condition from the ruined schools and hammered straight again, form a vast topography on the floor.
"Anyone can make rebar, but steel used to make appliances and cars" — sheet steel, at the top of the market — "is really tough to make.
"Bam! — the price of rebar collapsed by twenty per cent.
"At the bottom of the market is concrete reinforcing bar" — rebar.
They had to grow a certain amount every year, so selling bad products at low margins (like rebar) was never going to seem like the sensible thing for them to do.
